This quilt, crafted by Bertha Neiden, who lived in Lincoln, NE, after immigrating from the Russian Empire, took nearly five years to construct. She pieced together approximately 10,200 triangles and squares to create a dynamic gradient effect.

One of the many displays in the Renwick Gallery’s new exhibition, “State Fairs: Growing American Craft,” dedicated to artists’ contributions to the great U.S. tradition of state fairs with more than 240 artworks on view, dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

‘Wooden Toy Boat Zephyr’ (1835); ‘Miss Sea’ (2022), posted earlier: